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As Summer Winds Down, More VA De-Risking Moves are Occurring

Lately we’ve been seeing fresh product reductions taking place around the variable annuity business, and we think that the effectiveness of such moves will depend largely on how each insurer will look, competitively, after making...

Reviewing VA Guaranteed Benefit Assets, NAR Movements From Q2

At different points in the past we have combed through quarterly financials of stock-traded insurers for data related to variable annuity guarantees, in an effort to gain insight on how such benefits might be impacting...

VA Insurers are Following Through – With a Fresh Series of De-Risking Moves

Around the variable annuity industry there are some pending product changes that will soon be taking effect that we will discuss in this commentary. In looking at them as a group, we are reminded of...

Reviewing Variable Insurance Fund Filings from June, 2012

In the past, June has been a rather slow period in terms of developments related to variable insurance portfolios. This year, however, fund filing activity picked up, and we have to think that there is...

In Reactive Mode – VA Issuers Are Trimming Products in Response to Peers

This summer is shaping up to be a rather busy one, as a number of variable annuity insurers have been filing product changes aimed at either reducing their sales, trimming their benefit risk levels –...

VA Insurers’ Summer Projects – From De-risking to New Product Concepts

The summer is usually a slow period for the variable annuity business, with sales dropping off, at least by a small margin. This year, however, it seems that activity has been picking up, most of...

Early Signs Point to Headwinds for the Variable Annuity Marketplace in 2012

Based on recently released industry sales figures, as well as the kinds of signals we’ve been getting from leading insurers, we are of the opinion there will be strong downward pressure on variable annuity sales...

VA Insurers Are Taking Measured Steps in Adjusting Their Products

It seems to us that most variable annuity insurers lately have been exercising great care in making changes to their contracts and benefits in response to competitive conditions. In recent weeks we have seen more...

Departures, De-Risking Dampened Variable Annuity Sales in 1Q12

As we usually do on each quarter, we compiled variable annuity sales results for 10 stock-traded insurers we watch on a regular basis, because performance of this group has proven to be a good early...